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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: The Script, pages 100-122.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which gravedigger apologizes to Dr. Poole by claiming that burying Dr. Poole was done only for fun?
(a) Flossie.
(b) Shelley.
(c) Chief.
(d) Loola.

2. Why is Miss Ethel Hook administered a sedative by the crew of the Canterbury?
(a) She tries to engineer a mutiny after becoming fed up with the captain.
(b) Her wounds are fatal, and she is put out of her misery.
(c) She becomes furious at Dr. Cudworth for his failure to read their map correctly.
(d) She cannot fathom the notion of leaving Dr. Poole.

3. Which scientist is leashed by a female baboon at the beginning of the screenplay?
(a) John "Mad Jack" Fuller.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Michael Faraday.
(d) Isaac Newton.

4. What is the first thing to appear in the "Ape and Essence" screenplay?
(a) The name of the producer.
(b) The title.
(c) A gathering of baboons.
(d) The ship called the Canterbury.

5. Who "ravishes" Dr. Poole during mating season?
(a) Loola.
(b) Two young mulatto girls.
(c) Polly.
(d) Two Postulants.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Hots live?

2. What book does Dr. Poole read from while courting Loola?

3. Why is Chief concerned that no women produced healthy babies this season?

4. According to the narrator, what was Gandhi's "great secret"?

5. William Tallis is from ____________.

(see the answer key)

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